HEALTHCARE new Royal Adelaide Hospital ( new RAH ) which opens later in the year - and is being acclaimed as one of the most technologydriven hospitals in the world .
The benefits are already being seen for the hospitals and health services using EPAS . Medication prescription and administration error rates have been substantially reduced at hospitals and health services using EPAS , compared to when these sites were using a paper record . Patients are receiving greater continuity of care because patient information across EPAS activated sites has enabled timely access to patient information that would have previously been held at an individual site in a paper record .
Allscripts was appointed as SA Health ’ s supplier for the EPAS rollout in 2011 . Allscripts brought with it its Electronic Medical Record ( EMR ) system and developed an Australian Patient Administration System which makes dramatic improvement in the way hospitals and GP clinics use and share a patient ’ s valuable information . au . allscripts . com 111